Chelsea Handler's Oscar tweets draw accusations of racism

3:54 PM, Mar 3, 2014

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LOS ANGELES - Comedian Chelsea Handler drew accusations of racism after she was invited to take over The Huffington Post's Twitter account during Sunday night's Oscars and repeatedly touted her upcoming book, "Uganda Be Kidding Me," whenever "12 Years A Slave" received an award.

People responded via Twitter with words like "disgraceful," ''offensive" and "racist."

Huffington Post senior executive director Perri Dorset said the site was upfront about the Twitter feed takeover and has invited celebrities to do so in the past, adding, "the views are theirs not ours."